Language encodes into morphology part of the information present in the referential world. Some features are marked in the great majority of languages, such as the numerosity of the …
F Franzon, C Zanini - Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In most natural languages, grammatical gender and number features encode semantic attributes concerning animacy, sex, and numerosity. Despite the likely advantage of …
This study reports and discusses the results of a pilot psycholinguistic investigation into the morphome–a term created (Aronoff) to indicate systematic relations between form and …
F Franzon, C Zanini - … on Abstract Concepts: Cognition, language and …, 2019 - torrossa.com
We report empirical data collected with preschool children in which we show that the uncountable reference is dispreferred. We discuss possible reasons for this phenomenon …
M Wild, V Faraoni, M Loporcaro - Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für …, 2020 - degruyter.com
This chapter addresses a series of Greek loan nouns that had previously been integrated into Latin and which may, in some cases, have entered Romanesco via an intermediate step …